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...nation of Stoics. From the outset, Americans have been so compulsive about winning that losing is almost unAmerican. In this sense, the U.S. is only the most extreme example of the Western trait that Oswald Spengler described as Faustian?the refusal to believe in a static order or a fixed fate. The very freedom of Western culture puts a heavy burden on losers. Western man's destiny is largely up to him?and so are his failures. The fabulous opportunities open to a new people on a new continent became the basis of a secular religion, a faith in competition...
...BOFORS GUN. Actors David Warner and Nicol Williamson make this static film about life in the postwar British army into a realistic antimilitary document...
...latest step in that direction is a proposed merger with New York-based St. Regis Paper Co., a deal that has already brought RCA plenty of static from Wall Street analysts. The get-together, involving $630 million in RCA stock, was negotiated by Bob Sarnoff and St. Regis' longtime chairman, Roy K. Ferguson, 74, but still must be approved by directors and shareholders of both companies. If it goes through, the acquisition of the $721.7 million-a-year paper company would put RCA, the 27th largest U.S. firm, as recently as four years ago, within striking distance...
What Barth is really up to can perhaps best be seen-or rather heard-in Glossolalia. He uses the mystical notion of speaking in tongues as a pointed metaphor in his guerrilla war against static literary forms. More a soothsayer's scripture than prose fiction, the piece mimics the ancient ritual that attempts to divine the truth with spontaneous word patterns and nonsense syllables. Concludes Barth: "The sense-lessest babble, could we ken it, might disclose a dark message, or prayer...
...interpreting God's mysterious ways. Still more insist that natural law must be constantly reinterpreted in light of man's expanding knowledge. Thus, some thinkers contend that the Pope's rejection of birth control because it interferes with procreation is based on a static and incomplete understanding of sexuality as a merely biological function. A complete natural-law theory of intercourse should include its total significance for man within marriage. To most modern couples, it is more important as an expression of love than as a method of procreating children...